Event Date:
March 2, 2015 - 2:00 PM
Location:
Student Union
Members of the campus community are invited to celebrate the University’s 50th year as part of the UNC system at 2 p.m., Monday, March 2, in the Student Union Rotunda.
On March 2, 1965, the N.C. House of Representatives passed a bill designating Charlotte College as the University of North Carolina at Charlotte effective July 1, 1965. According to the Charlotte Collegian, news of the bill’s passage was greeted on campus with “bell ringing, cheers, shouts and tears of happiness.”
University founder Bonnie Cone remarked, “I think it’s one of the greatest things to happen in North Carolina’s history of higher education.”